Latest Christie's Stories

A Trekkie who paid $6,000 for a poker visor that was supposedly worn by the android Data on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation" claims in a lawsuit against Christie's auction house that the prop is a fake.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's antitrust watchdog has obtained
a prohibition order against Sotheby's auction house aimed at
preventing it from illegal price-fixing schemes like the one it
engaged in with Christie's six years ago.

By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fans of "Star Trek" get a new
chronicle of the enormously popular franchise with the release
next week of a 500-page catalog of the memorabilia to be
auctioned off this fall in Manhattan.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York antiques dealer is caught
in a legal battle between the French government and Christie's
auction house over the sale of a 13th century Jewish manuscript
stolen from a French library.

By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) - A Jewish woman who went to court to win
back five Gustav Klimt paintings taken from her ancestors by
the Nazis will sell the remaining works from her collection
after the first fetched a record $135 million.

LONDON (Reuters) - A woman who fought a court battle to win
back five valuable paintings by Gustav Klimt taken from her
heirs by the Nazis will sell the remaining works from her
collection after the first fetched a record $135 million.

By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) - A painting returned to the heirs of its
Jewish owners by a German museum last month will go under the
hammer at Christie's in New York on November 8 and is expected
to fetch $18-25 million.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Marlon Brando's annotated script of
"The Godfather," letters from playwright Tennessee Williams and
dozens of other personal items are going up for auction in the
latest sale to open the door on the once highly reclusive
actor.